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CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT WAYS. No. 388,266. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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Unrrsn GEORGE OOYVDERY AND EDXVIN B. THOMAS, OF BURVOOD, NEAR SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.

CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT WAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,266, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed August 19, 1886. Serial No.5211,309. (No model) Patented in England Julie 30. 1886, No. 8.592.

T all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE COWDERY and EDWIN ROBINS THoni-ls, both subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Burwood, near Sydney, in the British colony of New South \Vales, civil engineers, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Permanent \Vays, (a patent having been granted to us on the said invention in Great Britain, dated June 30, 1886, and numbered 8,592,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention has been devised in order that the wooden sleeper with its adzed beds for 1 fiat-footed or T rails of permanent ways, and the accompanying woodscrews and dog-bolts for fastening such rails, may be dispensed with; and also in order to provide a sure and economical method of fastening flat-footed and T rails to metal sleepers.

\Ve takea metal sleeper, preferably of steel, and at the desired gage or distance apart we cut or stamp out two tongnepieces opposite and a little distance from one another, which tongues we then bend upward in somewhat of a curved inverted- L shape with the upper ends facing one another, thus forming lugs or catches. \Ve prefer to first thicken or strengthen the sleeper where the lugs are formed, and to use a sleeper with a heavier center than sides, and with turned-down ends. Between the catches or lugs we place a bed and inclination piece, which is so formed that the rail, which we prefer should be of T- 5 section, will have an inclination of, say, one in twenty. This bed-piece we recess or slot at either end to clip the lugs, and so hold itself in place, and to prevent the rail from creeping we pass a pin through the rail 0 and bed-piece at, say, one or two places in each length of rail. One end of the foot of the rail catches under one of the lugs on the sleeper, preferably the inside one, and a split key is driven in under the other catch 5 or lug, and between such lug or catch and the rail, and its split opened out to keep it in place. We prefer this split key should be beveled on one side to press above and against the beveled head of the pin through the rail and bed, to prevent creeping.

In order that this invention may be clearly understood, reference will now be made to the drawings herewith, in which Figure 1 represents asectional elevation, and Fig. 2 a top plan view, ola portion of a sleeper formed with catches or lugs for the rails according to our improvements in the construction of permanent ways, and with a rail fixed to said sleeper according to this invention. Fig. 3 is a plan of under side of the split key.

A is the rail; B, the steel sleeper; 0, bed or inclination piece; 0, inside catch or lug; 0, outside catch or lug; D, key; D, split leaf, and D beveled side; E, anti-creeping pin,and E beveled head.

To construct a sleeper with our catches or lugs we stamp or cut out tongue-pieces (prefl erably we roll the sleepers thicker where the catches are to be made) and turn these tongues up into catches O and O at the proper gage. The bed-piece 0, being made so as to give the rail the inclination required, recessed to fit over the catches and extend beyond them at either side, is put in place, the rail A rested thereon and pushed under lug 0. Key D is then driven between the foot A of the rails,- under lug C and between it and said rail, and leaf D opened out. The pin E, having beveled head E inserted at intervals, is kept in place by bevel D on side of key D. It will be seen that there is thus formed a sure and economical fastening of rails to metal sleepers, and that the parts are few and not likely to be at all misapplied by nnskillful laborers.

Having thus particularly described and ascertained our said invention, and the manner in which the same is to be carried into practical effect, we would have it understood that we do not confine ourselves to the precise de tails hercinbefore described so long as the nature thereof be retained; but

Vhat we believe to be novel and original, and therefore claim as our improvements in the construction of permanent ways, is

1, The combination, with a railroad-rail, of a metal sleeper or cross-tic, having upwardlyextending and inturned lugs to engage the base of the rail, an inclined or tapering bed- IOi' piece slotted to receive the adjacent rail-gripping lug or lugs, an anti-creeping pin passed vertically through the base of the rail and the bed-piece, and a split key tolock said pin and the adjacent portion of the base of the rail, the bed-piece, and the adjacent clip together, substantially as set forth.

2. As an improvement in the permanent way of railroads, the combination of a railroad-rail of substantially T form in cross-section and having a vertical slot or hole in one base, a sleeper or cross-tie having downturned ed ges,a pair of oppositely-facinglugs or clips integral with said sleeper or tie and extending upwardly therefrom and having inturned top portions,a horizontally tapering or inclined bed-piece to support the rail in horizontally inclined position, said bed-piece being slotted or recessed at each end to receive and embrace and grip the lugs or clips on the tie, and having near one end a vertical slot Witnesses:

HENRY P. OHATER, CHARLIE F. RYAN. 

